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Exceptional Ruby now available in ePub, Mobi, and HTML

By far the most common request I’ve received from buyers of Exceptional Ruby is for mobile formats, and today I’m happy to grant those requests. All current Exceptional Ruby buyers have received new download links for a combined PDF/ePub/Mobi/HTML download, … Continue reading

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Getting Started with Erector in Rails 3

  Click to Play   A quick guide to getting up and running with the Erector templating library. EDIT: Here’s the fork and branch I used to get it working.

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The happy developer

The programmer has a fixed amount of time and concentration that he can give every day. HeĀ mustĀ give a bigger piece of the pie to the bad technologies, simply because they require more. In other words, he ends up spending most … Continue reading

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The Mechanics of Web Design

I am a stereotypical developer: I can’t design my way out of a wet paper bag, and I tend to regard every potential bout with CSS with trepidation. I’m trying to get better, though. Progress is slow. I started working … Continue reading

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Viewing REST service responses in a browser

Have you ever had this experience? You’re debugging some RESTful service and trying to figure out why it’s returning 500s. So you dump the response body to STDOUT and HOLY HAND GRENADE THAT’S A LOT OF HTML!!! Wouldn’t it be … Continue reading

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